Pedophile Exposed After Wife Finds Photos Of Children, Including Infants, On Phone

A woman in South Wales, United Kingdom, secretly checked her newlywed husband’s phone after she began suspecting he was having an extramarital affair. The truth she discovered was far worse as she found several pictures showing sexual abuse of children in his phone.

Michelle Power, 47, was determined to find out why her husband, James Wright, refused to be physically intimate with her just days after their wedding, the Sun reported. The couple got engaged in April 2013 and married in October.

She said although he was “charming” he had no interest in having sex with her and instead, spent every waking hour occupied with his phone. Every time Power confronted her husband regarding his habit, he simply said he was browsing social media or turned his phone off when she came into the room. “But now I know why our sex life was completely non-existent - James got his thrills from much darker places,” she told Fabulous Digital on Tuesday.

Suspicious that he was having an affair, Power secretly checked her husband’s phone and that was when she found a stash of pictures showing sexual abuse of children as young as three months old. There were also racy texts and calls from an array of numbers that she did not recognize.

“My heart raced as I was waiting to find some saucy messages and there were hundreds of them - all describing sexual acts - dozens of calls from unknown numbers. Then I clicked on to his pictures and then I found something far, far worse than I could have ever imagined. I could barely breathe when I saw those terrible photographs. There were lots of photographs of very young children being abused. It was horrific,” she said.

Powers said she “threw up” and “broke down” after she discovered a number of pictures where Wright appeared wearing his underwear. He also appeared to have had phone sex with other men.

Not knowing what to do with the shocking discoveries she had made, Power got in contact with her lawyer who advised her to go to the police with the evidence that she had found – something that was not easy for her to do.

“I told them everything. I was very scared but later that day they arrested James. His words to the police were: 'I know I should not be doing it'. I remember getting home and seeing our wedding photograph on the mantelpiece. I looked at James and wondered who on earth he was - this man I'd exchanged wedding vows with. It was utterly sickening to think I'd loved and trusted this man,” she said.

Wright was arrested and appeared before the Swansea Crown Court for the first time in February 2018. He was charged with three counts of making and three counts of distributing indecent photographs of children and one count of possessing extreme pornographic images.

He admitted in court that he sent 205 images via text and Skype to others, many of whom were “extremely graphic,” for sexual gratification. He was sentenced to two years in prison and was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.

“You peddled the misery of real children,” the presiding judge said before giving the verdict. “The possession of images of children is a serious offence but you've been involved in the distribution of the most obscene images of young children, including infants as young as three to six months. It is a grave and appalling abuse of young children, real children being abused by real adults. Each time it is distributed and seen by an adult the same child is being abused all over again.”